For me, marriage is a terrible institution, and it should be suppressed," Gellhorn once said. She had one son, George Alexander Gellhorn, whom she brought up alone, writing what she called "bilge stories" for women's magazines to make money. Over the years, Miss Gellhorn lived in France, Cuba, Mexico, Italy and Kenya. She divided her final years between an apartment in central London and a cottage in Wales. She once lived in the White House as a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt's, and while still in her twenties appeared on the cover of the respected Saturday Review of Books. She left the United States after World War II, saying she could not live in a "colonial power." She once explained the secret of her long life with the thought, "I drink and I smoke and I eat very stupidly. . . . It bores me, all this health stuff." She summed up her life by concluding that "I'm over-privileged. I've had a wonderful life. I didn't deserve it, but I've had it." In addition to her son, survivors include an adopted son, Sandy Gellhorn, and a brother, Alfred.